Posts Tagged ‘Alpha arbutin’

Skin Bleaching Cream – Finding One That Won’t Make You Suffer

December 17th, 2009

Your choice of a skin bleaching cream boils down to whether it works with nature, or against it. And whether you can feel it working.

  1. Natural acids work with nature.
  2. Chemicals work against it.

Chemicals are put on skin to make it peel. Once it starts to dry and flake, the skin is scraped off. This is called ‘exfoliation’. Few people use peels to lighten overall skin tone. You just can’t peel your whole body.

It’s overkill.

But moles, dark circles, acne discoloration, freckles, sun spots and tattoos have all been attacked with chemical peels. Pigment runs very deep. A chemical peel has to burn off layer after layer to ‘get to the bottom of it’. It takes a lot of surrounding skin with it.

The naturals work differently.

The most effective natural ingredients in skin bleaching creams are acids. This may sound harsh but it’s very mild. The list includes:

  • Kojic acid.
  • Alpha arbutin.
  • Vitamin C.
  • Azaleic acid.

You cannot feel them work. They team up with nature. The gentle acids work on melanin production. When melanin is inhibited, skin lightens. As skin naturally replaces itself there’s less and less melanin in the new skin cells. 

How do we know it’s safe? Alpha arbutin has been scientifically investigated. The result? Medical officials now call it “an alternative medicine” for skin bleaching. Also,

  • Kojic acid has been taken for centuries in Asia. They thought it was a vitamin. Then they noticed their skin was getting lighter.
  • You eat ascorbic acid in oranges. You drink azaleic acid in citrus juices. Kojic acid comes from rice or plants. Alpha arbutin comes from a berry bush. Bears love to eat it. Human herbalists love the juice, too.

These natural skin bleaching ingredients work. And you don’t feel them working.

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Alpha Arbutin – The Science Behind Arbutin in Skin Bleaching Creams

December 17th, 2009

There is some impressive science to back up claims that alpha arbutin is a good skin lightener that you can use without risk.

We ran across the results of a medical study that put it very plainly: “Alpha arbutin is an effective and safe ingredient for skin lightening.” We dug up the study, to make certain it was not based on fly-by-night science.

Alpha Arbutin is an old homeopathic remedy that used to be put on wounds. People discovered it lightened the skin around the wound.

Alpha arbutin was put to a scientific test. A study, in Japan, was titled “Inhibitory Effects of Alpha-Arbutin on Melanin…”. Doctor K. Sugimoto and his colleagues at the Biochemical Research Lab in Osaka, Japan wanted to know if alpha arbutin inhibits melanin from growing in human cells.

  • Why melanin? It gives skin dark color. To fade skin color you have to inhibit the body’s production of melanin. Then your skin lightens, moles tone down, and dark circles under the eyes fade.
  • Why? Because your body constantly makes new skin, and throws out the old. The new skin has less melanin. Old dark skin is shed naturally.
  • Why Japan? Asians have been lightening skin for centuries. It’s cultural. The doctors wanted to be sure the alpha arbutin so commonly used in their country was safe in products sold throughout Asia.

The Japanese medical investigators put human skin cells to the test. Their big concern was that if you interrupt melanin, the whole cell becomes abnormal.

They were able to report that alpha arbutin cut melanin production by more than half but had no other effect on cells developing normally.

Clich here to find a skin bleaching cream with alpha arbutin

An easy-to-follow guide to skin bleaching is here.

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Skin Lightening – How Does Alpha Arbutin Safely Make Skin Lighteners Effective?

December 2nd, 2009

How can a plant bears love be effective in skin lightening creams? The plant contains Alpha Arbutin, a natural skin lightener.

The Bearberry Plant gets it name from its biggest fans, the North American bears. They like to eat the berries. Herbalists like the leaves, and have used them for centuries to make alternative medicines. 

An extract of the Bearberry leaf is Alpha ArbutinIt is a natural skin whitening agent.

Why? An effective skin lightener must inhibit melanin. This is the pigment that gives skin darker color. Alpha Arbutin works on melanin. Six Japanese medical researchers found alpha arbutin successfully interrupted melanin production. Alpha arbutin reduced pigmentation in skin cells by 25 percent in one test, and 40 percent in a follow up study. 

The study also found Alpha Arbutin is perfectly safe on cells. They grew normally, but with less melanin.

In the words of the scientists in Japan, “These results indicate that alpha-arbutin is an effective and safe ingredient for skin-lightening.”

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